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Informed activism is principled and effective activism. PSR aims to provide the best materials for its network of members and activists to work at the grassroots level against nuclear weapons, global warming, and environmental contamination. Select an Issue or Resource Type to search for up-to-date information to help you take action in your community.
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Regulating Coal Ash: Choosing a Policy that will Protect Human Health
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is going to promulgate new rules for the disposal of coal combustion wastes, or coal ash. Currently the EPA is presenting two different options for how coal ash would be disposed, and is accepting citizen comments on them. PSR strongly urges its members to submit comments in support of “Subtitle C.”
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Letter to Senate Appropriations Committee on FY2011 Budget
A letter to members of the Senate Appropriations Committee opposing $17 billion in dirty subsidies in the FY2011 Energy and Water appropriations bill.
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Letter to Chairman Obey on $25 Billion in Nuclear Loan Guarantees in the FY2011 Budget
A letter signed by CEOs of environmental and security focused organizations opposing $25 billion in nuclear loan guarantees in the FY2011 Energy and Water budget.
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Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging Report and Training Materials Download
Healthy Aging is really about healthy living. This new report offers the most comprehensive review of the currently available research on the lifetime influences of environmental factors on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, and their relation to a range of other chronic diseases.
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Analysis of the American Power Act Nuclear Subtitle
An analysis of the nuclear subtitle of the draft American Power Act, also known as the Kerry-Lieberman bill.
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Two Page Summary of the American Power Act nuclear subtitle
A shorter analysis of the nuclear subtitle of the draft American Power Act, also known as the Kerry-Lieberman bill.
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Toxic chemicals and environmental justice
Toxic chemical exposures create specific burdens borne by communities-of-color, Indigenous peoples, and low income communities. These communities across the United States bear a disproportionate impact of a wide array of chemical exposures.
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In Harm's Way Materials Download
A 140 page, fully referenced, peer reviewed report, addressing the links between toxic chemicals in our environment and learning, behavioral and developmental disabilities in children.
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In Harm's Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development Project
Learning, behavioral and developmental disabilities including Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and autism prevent our children from reaching their full human potential. Seventeen percent of children in the United States have been diagnosed with one or more developmental disabilities.
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Coal’s Assault on Human Health Letter
Draft of proposed op-ed article by Barbara Warren, MD, MPH and Eve Shapiro, MD
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